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- COMMAND: PC-FONT DOCUMENTATION : Off-line
-
- FUNCTION: Provides a variety of enhanced printing capabilities on a graphics
- printer, including access to the extended character set.
-
- FORMAT: PC-FONT [d:]filespec [1x][2x][3x][4x][5x][6x]
-
- TYPE: Public domain software (SJL,4473 Marlborough #5,San Diego,CA 92116)
-
- REMARKS: There must be exactly one space between PC-FONT and the file
- specification, including the optional drive designation. Parameters
- may be entered in upper or lower case and may be listed in any
- order. The following options are available:
-
- 1x : sets the default font size and density, where x can be:
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────┬────┬────┬────┬────────────────┐
- │ 1x │ Font Size │ CPI│ CPL│ LPI│ Font Density │
- ├───────┼─────────────────┼────┼────┼────┼────────────────┤
- │ A │ Condensed │10.0│ 132│ 14 │ Double strike │
- │ B │ Compressed │17.2│ 132│ 8 │ Standard │
- │ C │ Compressed │17.2│ 132│ 8 │ Double strike │
- │ * D │ STANDARD │10.0│ 80│ 6 │ STANDARD │
- │ E │ Standard │10.0│ 80│ 6 │ Double strike │
- │ F │ Standard │10.0│ 80│ 6 │ Emphasized │
- │ G │ Standard │10.0│ 80│ 6 │ Correspondence │
- │ H │ Compressed-Wide │ 8.5│ 66│ 6 │ Standard │
- │ I │ Compressed-Wide │ 8.5│ 66│ 6 │ Double strike │
- │ J │ Double width │ 5.0│ 40│ 6 │ Standard │
- │ K │ Double width │ 5.0│ 40│ 6 │ Double strike │
- │ L │ Double width │ 5.0│ 40│ 6 │ Emphasized │
- │ M │ Double width │ 5.0│ 40│ 6 │ Correspondence │
- └───────┴─────────────────┴────┴────┴────┴────────────────┘
-
- 2x : sets the default font style, where x can be:
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 2x │ Font Style │
- ├───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ * N │ STANDARD │
- │ I │ Italics │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- 3x : sets the line spacing, where x can be:
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 3x │ Line Spacing │
- ├───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ * S │ SINGLE │
- │ H │ One and a Half │
- │ D │ Double │
- │ T │ Triple │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- 4x : determines whether the printer will skip over
- perforations, where x can be:
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 4x │ Skip Over Perforation │
- ├───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ * N │ DON'T SKIP OVER PERFORATIONS │
- │ Y │ Skip over Perforations │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Choose the "N" option when the file already contains
- formatting characters, e.g. when the file has been printed
- back to a diskette file from a word processor.
-
- 5x : determines the character set where x can be:
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 5x │ Character Set │
- ├───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ * E │ EXTENDED │
- │ S │ Standard │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- The "E" option selects all characters from the 244 extended
- character set. Both Epson and IBM Printers can use this
- option.
-
- The "S" option prints all characters from the printers
- standard character set. This is useful if the file contains
- no extended characters but other PC-Font options are
- desired.
-
- 6x : defines an alternate escape character which will be
- treated as ASCII 27. This can be used to change printer
- options within a file, (covered in the Advanced Operations
- Section).
-
- ┌───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ 6x │ Alternate Escape Character (ASCII 27) │
- ├───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
- │ x │ x = any character except the numbers 1-5. (The │
- │ │ ^ is recommended.) The default is the stan- │
- │ │ dard escape character, ASCII 27. │
- └───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Note : * indicates the default value of each option.